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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Poetry [Browse]
• United States—Race relations—History—Poetry [Browse]

Series

Made in Michigan writers series. [More in this series]

Summary note

A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Language note

English

Contents

• ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Which Treats the New Century in the New Nation & a Couple of Movers & Shakers Who Shake & Move It""; ""2 Which Treats of the Station in Life & the Pursuits of the Famous Colored Gentleman, Booker T. Washington, & His Sally to Break Bread with President Theodore Roosevelt TR, & That Mealâ€?s Aftermath""; ""Interlude 1""; ""3 Which Treats of “The Great Negro Educatorâ€?sâ€? Sally along the Avenue; Frederick Douglass""; ""Interlude 2""
• ""4 Wherein Are Related Matters Trifling & Historic, Lame-Brained & Etymological, Relating to Jim Crow & His Formidable Rise""""Interlude 3""; ""5 Which Treats of the Last Stop of the Montgomery & West Point Railroad before BTâ€?s Return to Tuskegee, & Philosophical/Political Musings on Music & Time Travel""; ""Interlude 4""; ""Interlude 5""; ""Interlude 6""; ""6 Which Treats of George Washington Carver (1864â€?1943, Inventor, Tuskegee Professor); Invent, Inventor, Inventing & Polaris""; ""Interlude 7""; ""Interlude 8""
• ""7 Of the Migration Blues, Ship of Fools & State, & Moving on Up with Moving on Up""""Interlude 9""; ""8 Of a Booker T. Ditty, & an Imagined Want Ad""; ""9 In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Befalls Booker T. When He Encounters Certain Wicked Upstarts in Boston""; ""Interlude 10""; ""10 On Niagara Falls, Brownsville, Atlanta, & Newtonâ€?s 3rd Revisited, + TIP & TILT""; ""11 Flashback c. 1903. Which treats of Hollywoodâ€?s 1st flicker; Seeking Freedom; Opposites Attracting; Fair Usage; Uncle Tom; Syncretism; & Attempted Unions""; ""12 Of Use, Used; The Clansman
• Interacting Entities & Denial of Influences Berlin; Picasso; Abbott & Costello; & the Loas Showing Up""; ""Interlude 11""; ""13 1909. An Arctic Episode in Which Is Related the Frigid Adventure of Matthew Henson When, in the Era of White Hopes, He Stands on Top of the World. & in Which Mr. Johnson Meets Mr. Burns under the Sharp Eye & Pen of Mr. London""; ""14 Of What Happens (in a Tuskegee Seniorâ€?s Daydreams) When the Galveston Stevedore Meets the Tuskegee Wizard""; ""15 1909â€?1910. Treats of the Blues, Black Movies, & NAACP Coming into Focus as Whitefolks Act Ugly, Puff, Pow""
• ""16 In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Befalls Mr. Jeffries When He Encounters 2-Fisted Mr. Johnson . . . & Other Unlooked-for Happenings""""17 1912â€?1914. In Which Woodrow Wilson, Jack Johnson, & James Reese Europe Figure . . . & Other Unsought Happenings""; ""18 1913â€?1914. In Which the Smart Money Was Still Not in Coon Futures . . . William Monroe Trotter Confronts Woodrow Wilson, & Other Unpleasant Matters That Deserve to Be Recorded""; ""19 Of D. W. Griffith""
• ""20 Which Treats, circa 1911, of Trust & Fulfillment, & the First Sally that Booker T. Takes to View the Ingenious Work of D.W.""

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ISBN

0-8143-3717-1

OCLC

• 778704200
• 923510516

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